The Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group and a multi-disciplinary team from Point No Point Treaty Council, UW, WDFW, USFWS, NMFS, and Kitsap County used this funding for Phase II of a project to restore habitat on Big Beef Creek habitat for threatened summer chum. Previously they had developed the Hood Canal Summer Chum Habitat Recovery Plan and completed Phase I, which had re-established a spawning channel and gathered hydrology data on the lower basin that would be used to guide future large-scale restoration efforts. Phase II relocated a well, reconnected a 30-acre wetland with the mainstem of Big Beef Creek, and lined the spawning channel with boulders. This addressed the primary limiting factor to natural production of summer chum in Big Beef: sediment aggradation and deficient channel complexity in the lower reaches. The road separating the wetland from the mainstem protects a waterline from a high capacity well that provides water for NMFS' and UW's research projects. Rerouting the waterline was not economically or technically feasible and the best alternative was to relocate the well closer to the main Research Station. The water rights transfer was approved by DOE. This project was specifically recommended in the Hood Canal Summer Chum Habitat Recovery Plan.